Today is a sad day. Because yesterday was a tragic day. In fact, I think for the rest of my life I'm going to look on April 30ths as black days, indeed.
Because I finished the fifth and final seasons of Merlin. It's over. Done. No more Arther, Gwen, Percival and of course, my main man himself...Merlin. As I sat on my bed during the final episode, I'm just going to confess it: I cried. Like tears-running-down-my-face-high-pitched-squeaky-breaths cried. Because ...even as I knew what was coming, I wasn't emotionally prepared for a two-fold (three-fold, actually) goodbye.
The true story is that...I went and lit a candle. In memory of my Albian friends who I'll never get to see again, in anything other than re-run marathons. Yah, I'm sorta wierd that way. But when you get emotionally-and-soulfully attached to fictional characters like I do, sometimes ya just gotta be crazy and be sad.
Eek. Please don't tell me that it's just me who does stuff like that!
There's my boys. Sir Leon, Merlin, Sir Elion, King Arther, Sir Gwayne and Sir Percival.
*hysterical weeping*
My sad face next to their immortal faces. I'm currently in a state of mourning for today. And probably tomorrow, too. As glad I am that this show had a full and complete ending (not a wearily, drawn-out or abrupt ending because a main actor left, etc), I still wish it could have gone on forever.
So, if you've been a Merlin fan and you've completed Season Five...you could totally email me. Because I only know two people around here who love Merlin and they've not seen the last season yet. So I have nobody to even talk to about it! Compound the sadness.
So, I officially declare today, May 1st, as My Official Merlin Remembrance Day.
*rocks quietly in chair and hums taps*
You are so not the only one! I cry when I finish favorite book and TV series, and even put off reading/watching the last bits to make it last longer!
ReplyDeleteI should start watching Merlin, I've heard so much about it and feel the need to start watching it!
I'm still sad when I think of Lost, Monk and Ugly Betty (don't judge, it's a surprisingly funny and addictive show!) and weep a little weep when I think that there will never be any new episodes! =(
DeleteOh, KatySue! You really DO need to start watching Merlin! I guarantee that you will LOVE it! I really know you will! Start watching it and keep me updated on your progress!
DeleteOh, and I'm hoping to start Lost soon (although I heard that they end up just being dead at the end?? I'm not sure about watching a really long show...but already knowing they're just dead people!). I've watched the first episode of Monk but haven't gotten "in to it" yet, although I own the first season. And I've never even heard of Ugly Betty!
DeleteIsn't it so immensely sad?? Not what happened so much... Mostly just that IT'S OVER.
ReplyDeleteBut soon I'll rewatch all the seasons. ;)
Becky, I am RIGHT there with ya! Sad is the word of the day! Yes, I too plan on many re-watching marathons in the years to come! :D
DeleteI cried like a baby at the end of the 10th Doctor. :)
ReplyDeleteAnd I cry during the last episode of Boy Meets World, when they're all in the classroom saying goodbye to Mr. Feeny. Good grief, I'm tearing up now just thinking about it!
~Kristin
It's good to know that I'm not the only emotional mess at the end of a good show!! How is it that totally non-real characters can become so much a part of our soul?? I wonder if fictional people will be in heaven...
DeleteHahahaha....When reading a series I was always really sad when it ended too. I never watched an entire series...and never watched Merlin.
ReplyDeleteSincere Condolences,
Iris♥
Iris, you should give Merlin a try! It's quite good. Too put it mildly! :D Thanks for the c condolences! :)
DeleteI know what's coming because I read spoilers and while it will be sad, I'll confess to doing much better just because I know what happens. If I didn't, things would not be good. LOL! Hey, once I get to S5, I'll be glad to talk about how it all goes down. :)
ReplyDeleteYes, Rissi, do lets talk all about it after you've seen it!! I knew the obvious ending of the story, but the details and "extras" were all new for me as I watched them, since I stubbornly refused to look at anything that even hinted at the ending! :D
DeleteOh, I'll probably be shocked by some of the details also since like you, I merely know the gist of it. However, I have gotten "better" at accepting bad things in my favorite TV shows. It's always sad but I soldier on. ;)
DeleteDefinitely excited to watch the rest of S4 and eventually, five. :)
I need to get better at accepting the bad things! I take thing way to personally for my own good! :D
DeleteOh, girl, here! *hands you a tissue box that produces infinite tissues* The ending...I'm not sure I can even express how deeply sad my feelings were. I cried myself to sleep that night, I moped around the house for days, I had an at least 2 week period of total depression. Yeah, it was that bad. And whenever I think about it (like right now) I literally have to fight off the tears. I know one shouldn't love a show or fictional characters THAT much, but I do. I always will. Those characters were my family, my best friends, and now... *sigh*
ReplyDeleteI'm with you though, having a proper ending is soooo much better than the show just being canceled or something. But THAT ending...torturous. It was even worse that I had no clue how it was going to end. Being how it was a BBC show and BBC seems to take pleasure in ripping its viewers' hearts out, I kind of suspected it would be a sad ending, but I kept clinging on to hope that it would all end okay, that everyone would be happy. So...yeah...the ending hurt. It also ruined Christmas for me being as how that's when it aired and I watched it the night of Christmas.
You are not alone, Kellie! Here 4 months later and I'm still deeply mourning. *hugs*
Ah, Laurie, you sound just like me! "A period of mourning" sums me up so well! Some shows that I've watched still haunt me with the sadness over it being over! And I fear that Merlin will be yet another one of those shows! "My family, my best friends," - exactly! I felt like Merlin, Arther and me were team. And now the team is over. *sniff sniff*
DeleteWow...I'm SO glad that I didn't watch it on Christmas or my Christmas would have been ruined, too!! I knew of THE ENDING (THE PART that none of us wanted to happen) would have to happen, due to the actual legend...but somehow, I just hoped against hope that somehow they would finagle the story to be exclude that, kind of like they so nicely navigated the "Lancelot & Gwen" story-line, and tweaked it so it wasn't as blah as the actual legend. But no....IT had to happen and I was devastated.
Thanks for your co-misery, Laurie!! I needed some friends to "hash" it out with! :D
Many a show has broken my heart, but nothing like Merlin (which is saying something due to my excessive love for Doctor Who...lotsa heartbreak goin' on in that show as well). I felt that way, too! About Merlin, Arthur, and me being a team. The whole cast were my buddies. I went to them when I needed a smile. But now...
DeleteYeah, I knew I shouldn't have watched it during Christmas, but I couldn't help it. It was there and I just couldn't wait any longer to watch it. And I felt the same exact way. I knew how it all ended in the legend (major Arthurian Legend geek here, which is why I started watching this show in the first place) but, like you, I kept hoping maybe they would change it. They put huge twists and changes on the legend anyways. They kind of made it their own. So I kept hoping they would not break our hearts and end it happily. But nooooo. That's not the BBC way. *groans*
Of course! I don't have anyone in person to mourn over Merlin either, just my internet buddies, so it's good to have someone to talk about it to.
Yes, most of my Merlin people are online, too! Although there is a growing amount of people who watch Doctor Who crawling out of the wood work, so I can at least fan with them about DW! I'm still working on getting more Merlin-folk around here! :)
DeleteI completely understand. I am the same way and get so attatched to fictional characters. It's like someone I personally know has died!
ReplyDeleteYou should have seen me when Ten regenerated to Eleven in Doctor Who. I sat on my bed and literally wept buckets of tears into my lap top for the whope episode. Then I went around mournfully the rest of the day, bemoaning his unfortunate demise/regeneration. I still haven't recovered from that one....
Holly, that was an especially sad moment of Doctor Who history!! And it didn't help that the writers made it like this big huge "closure" thing with EVERYBODY! Oh so sad...although I have completely acclimated to to Eleven/Matt Smith since then. :)
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